html-injection-testing

A security-testing guide for finding HTML injection, where untrusted input is inserted into a web page as HTML. It covers testing methods and how this differs from cross-site scripting (XSS), which can run scripts in a victim’s browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test web-page inputs with browser tools, request proxies, or command-line requests, then document injection points, proof of impact, risks, and remediation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal whether attackers can change a page’s appearance or create fake forms that could support phishing. It also organizes the evidence and suggested input-validation fixes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zebbern/claude-code-guide/html-injection-testing
Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill html-injection-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,443 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00058 $0.03443
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01722
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00689
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00344

Measured yesterday against content hash 0698b5b945b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

html-injection-testing scanned grade A with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Sends data to an external URLlowData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

curl -X POST -d "comment=<div style='color:red'>Malicious Content</div>" \

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "http://target.com/search?q=<h1>Test</h1>"
skills/html-injection-testing/SKILL.md · 499 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 499 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HTML Injection Testing

Purpose

Identify and exploit HTML injection vulnerabilities that allow attackers to inject malicious HTML content into web applications. This vulnerability enables attackers to modify page appearance, create phishing pages, and steal user credentials through injected forms.

Prerequisites

Required Tools

  • Web browser with developer tools
  • Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP
  • Tamper Data or similar proxy
  • cURL for testing payloads

Required Knowledge

  • HTML fundamentals
  • HTTP request/response structure
  • Web application input handling
  • Difference between HTML injection and XSS

Outputs and Deliverables

  1. Vulnerability Report - Identified injection points
  2. Exploitation Proof - Demonstrated content manipulation
  3. Impact Assessment - Potential phishing and defacement risks
  4. Remediation Guidance - Input validation recommendations

Core Workflow

Phase 1: Understanding HTML Injection

HTML injection occurs when user input is reflected in web pages without proper sanitization:

<!-- Vulnerable code example -->
<div>
    Welcome, <?php echo $_GET['name']; ?>
</div>

<!-- Attack input -->
?name=<h1>Injected Content</h1>

<!-- Rendered output -->
<div>
    Welcome, <h1>Injected Content</h1>
</div>

Key differences from XSS:

  • HTML injection: Only HTML tags are rendered
  • XSS: JavaScript code is executed
  • HTML injection is often stepping stone to XSS

Attack goals:

  • Modify website appearance (defacement)
  • Create fake login forms (phishing)
  • Inject malicious links
  • Display misleading content

Phase 2: Identifying Injection Points

Map application for potential injection surfaces:

1. Search bars and search results
2. Comment sections
3. User profile fields
4. Contact forms and feedback
5. Registration forms
6. URL parameters reflected on page
7. Error messages
8. Page titles and headers
9. Hidden form fields
10. Cookie values reflected on page

Common vulnerable parameters:

?name=
?user=
?search=
?query=
?message=
?title=
?content=
?redirect=
?url=
?page=

Read the full file on GitHub · 499 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 499 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 0698b5b945b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

html-injection-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,596 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 3,443 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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